Treasure Coast criminals on death row in Florida

Take a detailed look at the inmates who committed crimes along the Treasure Coast who currently sit on Florida's death row.

Name: Terry M. Ellerbee, Jr Age: 27 City: Okechobee Arrest: Oct. 2, 2006 Charges: First-degree murder Years on death row: 2; Sentenced to death Jan. 29, 2010 Appeal status: Florida Supreme Court in March upheld Ellerbee’s conviction and sentence; post-conviction motion pending. Crime: On June 8, 2009, Ellerbee, who had been living with his girlfriend and her infant child in trailer in rural Okechobee County, entered the home of Thomas R. Dellarco, 72, and killed him with a single gunshot to the head. Ellerbee also shot and killed one of Dellarco’s pet dogs, outside his house on the Viking Prairie, a wooded, rural area in Okeechobee County. Ellerbee dragged his body to a garage and stolen his vehicle, bank and credit cards. He was arrested after authorities discovered Dellarco’s decomposing body and found evidence linking Ellerbee to the crime. After he was in custody, he confessed to the murder, court records show.

Neil Salazar Age: 44 City: Okeechobee Arrest: July 5, 2000 Charges: First-degree murder Years on death row: 6; sentenced to death in May 2006 Appeal status: Post-conviction motion pending in state circuit court Co-defendants: Julius Hatcher was convicted of the second-degree murder of Evelyn Nutter and attempted murder of Ronze Cummings, in addition to armed trespassing and grand theft of a motor vehicle. He is serving two life sentences. Crime: Salazar and Hatcher on June 26, 2000, fatally shot Evelyn “Jenny” Nutter in the head after attempting to suffocate her with a plastic bag at her Fort Drum home in Okeechobee County. The pair also attempted to kill Nutter’s boyfriend, Ronze Cummings, who survived despite being shot. Both victims had been tied up with duct tape. Plastic bags were placed over their heads in an attempt to suffocate them before the shootings, according to authorities. One of the couple’s two children was in the house at the time. Salazar, a Miami drug trafficker, ordered the murder, authorities said, after thinking she and Ronze were FBI informants